Omar Ashour (Professor of Security and The Doha I Military Studies

Broschiertes Buch

How Isis Fights

Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt

Beschreibung

Omar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations.

Autor

Omar Ashour is Associate Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the Strategic Studies Unit in the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements (Routledge, 2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781474438223
• ISBN-10: 1474438229
• Artikelnr.: 50912142